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Alabama seems to prove the rule that poverty and infant death go hand-in-hand. Officials at the state’s Perinatal Health Program cite a number of reasons for the state’s high rate — including obesity, hypertension, diabetes and lack of health care — most of which are linked to poverty.
U.S. Census numbers showed that in 2009, a full 33 percent of Alabamians didn’t have Internet access at home or at work, and 5 percent have Internet only through dialup.
Alabama’s divorce rate — the nation’s third-highest for men, and fourth-highest for women — would seem to be a big embarrassment for a conservative, sanctity-of-marriage state.
On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the country’s main nationwide test of achievement, Alabama is still in the lower tier. Alabama’s fourth-grade reading scores are at 39th place. Fourth-grade science is in 43rd. Eighth-graders don’t do as well, still ranking near the bottom.